Saket Prakash, Chanakya National Law University
ABSTRACT
In the sake of everyone's safety, the primary goals of criminal law is to discourage crime and establish a standard of behavior for the community. Additionally, it forces one to exercise caution when engaging in a strict liability statute-governed activity and encourages one to exercise much more caution when doing so if one is aware that breaking the terms of the strict liability statute could result in the imposition of certain criminal sanctions. The Penal Code, 1860 serves as Bangladesh's strict liability law to discourage crime. Section 299 of The Penal Code, 1860 (hereafter referred to as The IPC) defines "culpable homicide" as the act of causing death with the intention of causing death, or causing such bodily injury as in likely to cause death, or with the knowledge of that such act is likely to cause death.
Furthermore, even though an act may be unlawful in nature, it will not constitute the crime of culpable homicide if it lacks one or more of the components listed in the aforementioned rule. Additionally, Section 300 of The PC states that every act of culpable homicide constitutes murder if it is done with the intent to kill, causes bodily harm to anyone, and the intended bodily harm is sufficient in nature to kill the victim.
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